What If I Was a Nonbeliever?

Pilgrims seen at sunrise on Cross Mountain. Climbing the mountain early in the morning is something many pilgrims do in Medjugorje; to begin the day with prayer and sacrifice, in order to convert, and become different people.

True conversion means to become an image of Jesus, an image of Our Lady. Medjugorje visionary Mirjana tells us: 
 

“Each one of us in our families or close where we live or where we work, there are some people around you who do not know God. They see us, they see the way we act. We should ask ourselves, can they really see the love of God through me, because, we have a responsibility before God for these persons? I always give one example of what happened to me. I often go to Mass in the morning. One morning I wasn’t able to go in the morning so I went in the evening. You know that our church is always extra full. I saw a seat in one pew and I wanted to sit down when all of the sudden they started to shout around me – Italians telling me that they came first, so I stood up in silence. Then a person arrived who was a member of that group. She told them that I was one of the visionaries – then everyone was giving me the entire pew. Why am I telling you this? What do you think? What if I was a non-believer who for the first time felt called to walk into a Catholic Church? I enter and those who are supposed to give me the love of God, they treat me that way? What do you think as a non-believer – am I going to return ever again to that Church? That is what we who say we are children of God – we have to realize that we have tremendous responsibility…”¹

Our Lady of Medjugorje said on March 2, 2016:
 

“…With a motherly heart I am imploring you, my children, but I am also repeatedly warning you, that concern for those who have not come to know my Son be in the first place for you. Do not permit that by looking at you and your life, they are not overcome by a desire to come to know Him…”

Warning… do not permit… they are not overcome… We have a tremendous responsibility if we are truly converted.
 

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